Finnlife Joki Log Cabin

Finnforest Joki Log Cabin: The perfect complement to your garden space.

The Finnlife Joki Log Cabin is a no-mess kind of cabin, which is why it will always look like it's in the right place. Wherever it goes - by the pool, near your exclusive tennis courts, overlooking the lush croquet lawn - this log cabin always blends in.

The Joki may come with Nordic style, yet doesn't look ill-fitting anywhere on the British landscape. Here, the living is easy.

Why buy the Finnforest Joki?

* Made from precision-cut top quality Scandanavian White Softwood
* 34mm wall logs - provides additional strength, insulation and resilience to cope with extended year-round use
* Timber joists
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated instructions

Dimensions

Width:
Internal: 3.83m
External: 4.10m

Depth:
Internal: 3.83m
External: 5.60m

Ridge Height
External: 2.84m

Area:
Internal: 14.68m²
External: 22.96m²

This log cabin is also available with underfloor heating - see stockists for details.

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How to build a Finnlife Log Cabin yourself

The lazy summer afternoons may be enticing, but don’t hurry to construct yourFinnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to work out how it goes together, and you will get pleasure from many years of hassle-free pleasure. No specialist abilities are required. Everyone can build a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some jobs may require more than one pair of hands. Construction times will alter depending on your skills and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t need to do it yourself!

It’s possible to show this text to a carpenter then sit back until he presents you with the keys to your completed Finn Life Log Cabin. However, no matter who finishes the task, the initial step is to understand fully these instructions. The knack is to be methodical and to foresee the work ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is distinctive. This set of general instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and are applicable to all Finnlife cabins.

For features that are unique to your Finnlife Cabin – such as dimensions, piece numbers, building plans and piece lists – you should refer to the individual Building Plans and Parts List. If you are building cabins Finnlife Helppo, Finnlife Helsinki, Finnlife Joki, Finnlife Kesa, Finnlife Pori, Finnlife Seita and Finnlife Valo
be aware that certain instructions may differ a slight amount from those found here.

Gravel option: Get rid of all organic matter before you start work on the foundations. Foundations should always be laid bigger than the footprint of yourFinnlife Log Cabin – 300mm wider in all direction and 6” thick when using compressed type gravel. For compressed gravel foundations you should use retaining boards to keep the gravel in place and compressed.

Before you commence to construct you should check that you have a complete set of pieces. Check off every piece against the piece list in the Building Plans and Parts List as you remove it from the transit packaging. In the unlikely event that there is a missing piece or that a piece has been broken in transit get in touch with the distributor, stating the Finnlife Log Cabin reference number displayed on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check off each piece lay them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Lay every piece close to where it will be used. Laying out aids you visualize how the Finnlife Cabin is built and it means that pieces are available to hand when you need them. You can utilize the Building Plans and Parts List as a guide to what goes where. Be wary not to lay pieces too close to the Finnlife Cabin footprint. Give yourself ample space to work in.

Lay out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely place them to match the complete frame. The top and bottom jambs are not quite matching. Place the one with the Lock RECESS AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. Make sure that the door cills go behind the doors. Slot the joints together loosely and check THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to moving on.

Lay out the floor beams at regular intervals in line with the layout in the Building Plans and Parts List. Where the beams join with interior or exterior walls ensure they lie directly beneath those walls, ensuring that there is a lip for the internal room floor boards.

Cut the polythene transit packaging (or a sheet of commercial damp-proof membrane) into strips roughly 12cm wide. Cut a pair of strips for each floor beam making sure that the strip lengths are about 50mm longer than the floor beams. When your Finnlife Cabin is complete you can then go back and remove away any unnecessary polythene/DPC membrane visible. Ensure that floor beams are level and that the cross diagonals are equidistant. Equidistant cross-diagonals mean that your Finnlife Cabin is square. Lay one damp-proof strip beneath each floor beam and one above. Make sure that no part of the floor beam is touching the underlying foundations.

Persist with laying wall boards in line with to the layout of the Building Plans and Parts List you will have received with your order. The last few layers of side wall boards in some Finnlife Log Cabin are longer. The lengths increase in steps to give support to an overhanging canopy. Lay angled gable boards in sequence starting with the length-most. Take care with the alignment of the angled gable boards. The sloping roof line should be symmetrical and even at both gable ends. Use nails at either end to fix each layer of gable boards to the layer below. Hammer nails in at an angle through the sloping ends of the gable boards.

Constructing the gable ends highlights a succession of openings for the roof beams. As every opening appears, tap in a roof beam. Make sure that the angled side of each roof beam lies flush with the angle of the gable. Nail through into the gable boards to fix. Tap the ridge beam into place at the apex of the gable ends. Secure by nailing into the top gable board. Slide ridge and roof beam extension pieces on top of the exposed ends of the beams at both ends of the cabin. Make sure that the upper surfaces of the beams and the extension pieces are flush, then fix by nailing from each side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Lay ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Begin from the front of the Finnlife Log Cabin by placing a ridge shingle evenly across the roof ridge so that the tip of the green edge is flush with the leading edge of the roof boards. Secure by hammering two clout nails through the black bitumen on either side of the roof ridge. Lay the second and each and every ridge shingles so that the green half completely covers the bitumen of the previous shingle. In each case, drive clout nails through the black bitumen to fix. You will have placed the last ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to fix.

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